Stories
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus and parasympathetic nervous system / [Harvey Cushing].
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.Date: 1932- Books
[Six papers on the posterior pituitary hormone and the parasympathetic nervous system] / by Harvey Cushing.
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.Date: [1931?]- Videos
The pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system.
Date: 1971- Videos
The pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system.
Date: 1971- Digital Images
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Solanum atropurpureum Schrank Solanaceae. Purple Devil. Purple-spined Nightshade. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Brazil. This ferociously spined plant contains tropane alkaloids, atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. All are anticholinergic and block the acetylcholine mediated actions of the parasympathetic nervous system. While the alkaloids are used in medicine and as an antidote to anticholinergic nerve gas poisons, the plant itself is not used in medicine. Its sharp spines can be irritant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley